EXCLUSIVE: The greatest Ukrainian media organizations have penned an open letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen urging sanctions on all Russian TV channels.
The group, which incorporates the heads of 1+1 Media, Starlight Media, Inter Media Group and members of the Ukrainian authorities, requested von der Leyen and her Vice President Věra Jourová to as an alternative advocate European information suppliers to look at Ukrainian TV information.
The largest Ukrainian media organizations have joined collectively because the Russian invasion two weeks in the past to broadcast a 24/7 United News newcast as a way to finest preserve the nation knowledgeable.
“Russian TV channels are justifying the Russian war against Ukraine in their multiple news stories, they are withholding the truth about the real scale of the military actions and their own losses,” stated the open letter, which accused the Russians of “generating an enormous amount of fake news.”
The letter requested that sanctions be imposed “on all Russian TV channels which are broadcasting by satellites or any other technology” and to “ban their distribution on EU territory.”
It listed the likes of RTR Planeta, Rossiya 24 and NTV Mir as channels which might be “detrimental to informational security of the whole world.”
Members of the media group and NGO workers had been inspired to signal the open letter.
The transfer is Ukraine’s newest in its try and persuade the world to impose “media sanctions” on Putin’s Russia, with the knowledge battle seen as one of many key battlegrounds of the battle.
The open letter welcomed the EU’s transfer to close down entry to information providers RT and Sputnik. Google Europe has additionally blocked these supplier’s YouTube channels and they’re being investigated by UK regulator Ofcom.
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